My mum bought some colored rice flour dough from the market yesterday morning. Last night, my 3 gals had their first experience rolling tong yuen. It was similar to playing with play dough and they had SO much fun. But the aftermath was REALLY messy – clumps of rice flour everywhere on the table, floor, their clothes, their body and hair. But what the heck, soon after rolling the balls, they all had their shower. It’s their first ever experience and they only get to do it once a year.
My 3 brats trying their hands on rolling tong yuen balls. The red color from the red rice flour dough is from beet root juice and and green one from pandan juice.
Baby looked really serious and absorbed playing with the rice flour. On a few occasions, she even climbed up the table to grab more dough.
My mum trying to stuff some homemade pandan kaya and homemade peanut butter into the balls but it was a failure. She has never done it before and the ball turned out really huge and a tad distorted.
The balls were all misshapened and came in all sizes.
Finally, she dropped the idea of stuffing the balls with kaya and peanut butter. Instead, she inserted a peanut into each tong yuen. This morning she rolled the tong yuen into a plate of toasted sesame seeds before boiling them.
This is our bowl of sesame seed coated, peanut butter, kaya and whole peanut filled tong yuen in soy bean milk with ginger.
Happy ‘kor toong’ everyone! Happy birthday to you too big bro Ray! See you and Marene on X’mas Eve and have a safe drive back from Singapore.
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wah so many different flavour you made. This year I just bought the ready made at hyper, so lazy to make myself. Happy Dong Zhi!!
My kid is not around so no one help me make rice balls. But it is working day today, so did not cook anyway.
The kids sure having fun messing and helping around. :p Happy Winter Solstice and Merry Xmas.
Shireen, your mother Tong Yuen is so fancy. I ate those tong yuen in brown sugar soup before in Penang. In soy milk, must be very nice too.
wow, look really yummy 😀 are you still in ipoh? Happy Winter Solstice Festival to you and your family.
wahhh…your mum so creative!!! the last time i ate tong yuen was at my cousin’s wedding eve dinner. in fact, we have never make tong yuen at home coz my mum dun eats it 🙁 so, whatever she dun eat, she dun make 🙁 and when we have our reunion dinner last sun, i also forgotten about making some ready made tong yuen 🙁
Happy Dongzhi Festival to u n ur family too!
i am sure those kiddos enjoyed rolling the tong yuen. I remembered, I enjoyed it a lot. Those were the years… I planned to do it with my girl, but just came back from our winter holiday, and MIL was so stressed that the house was not clean for Xmas, so have to clean the house… bummer!
haha…my mom’s house had the same messy condition all over the floor too, courtesy of my lil “yuet pong yuet mong” helper!!! your tong yuen are so colorful!!
yummy … and happy belated tong yuen.
a merry christmas to u and ur family!
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